Sustainability In Practice

Question 1
This summary is based on our previous work done during our SIEP Courseware under the guidance of Dr
Shree Kumar Pillai and Dr Sonia Garg.

The journey for this project begins during starting days of our college, when we were asked to form a
group where we had to connect the 17 Sustainability Development Goals declared by United Nations.

As a group we decided to work on the lines GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being declared under the
17 Sustainability Development Goals declared by United Nations where we choose to work upon
creating awareness and helping others about mental health which has been a serious issue among the
millennials over quite some time now.

Why this thought came in our minds was because Kanika and I had gone through the same mental
turmoil in past and had taken some help to come out of it. While this was a great opportunity for us to
help students at college by creating some medium at campus which would in turn could help us and the
society for greater good in future.

We as a team created a Google form for our survey under the guidelines of Google 9 point survey
questionnaire so that authenticity can be proved and which could help us know whether students were
really in need of some help or we had to change our project all together. To our surprise, Majority of
students were lying under the category of some help while those symptoms were unknown to them. We
decided to move forward with the project. While there are problems everywhere, we as a group were
stuck with our platform of help.

After brainstorming among ourselves, we decided on creating an anonymous android application where
students could login to ask their queries from student counselor at the campus without revealing their
identity, We had an idea where we could take this project as a business model in future.
We created a mobile application for people to come so, our direction of the project changed
during SEIP in second semester.

Our mission has been to teach more and more people about mental wellbeing problems, to tell
them tales that would inspire them to feel courageous enough to get support from the medical
professionals around them.

And we modified the course of our project accordingly this semester. "# Talk it out" has agreed
to make citizens conscious of just what mental wellbeing disorders are, whether they can be
healed with medical professional support, the purpose behind the phenomenon and the
teaching that self-love as human resource is the most precious aspect for a healthy world, even
how citizens want to suffer because of mental health conditions.
Our mission is to get people relaxed enough to start talking and realizing how relevant it is.
We're trying to teach men. We want to offer help and guidance to encourage all Indians
afflicted by mental health issues by providing a voice that offers them privacy before they feel
secure and free from fear of being judged.

Nodal Agencies contacted

 Mr. Ajay Vohra and Mr. Ashish Vohra, head of farmers association in a district adjoining
karnal – Jinjhana.
 'Parivartan' is a non-government organization working for the welfare of persons
with mental illness and their families in UT Chandigarh. 

Objectives accomplished

As soon as we noticed that none of this was effective, and we were struggling to get the
meetings and coordinate the workshops, so when we got some affiliation with the other
groups, the Covid-19 pandemic occurred, we wanted to transfer our attention to another
means in which we could teach people about the bad stigma of culture, but under the
restrictions of the lockdown scenario in India due to covid-19 pandemic situation.

• We began with a blog entitled "voiceofpeoples.xyz" in which we published numerous posts on

educating individuals and posted them via different social networking channels.

• We didn't limit our blog only to teaching posts, but also to writing up stories from the
experience of experiencing life from a specific lens.

• We've thought to share some lifestyle posts linked to Covid-19 too.

• Because of Covid-19 and the lockdown, a number of people are experiencing stress and
anxiety, and we felt it was a perfect time to spread our message and support citizens, as we
agree that balanced human capital is the cornerstone of a prosperous community.

• Blog is a perfect market platform.

Looking Ahead

We see a great deal of potential in expanding the research that we have done. It should have been
carried to too many levels. We will partner alongside other organizations to support culture crack the
stigma and make it much better. Everything that will certainly take time and meeting individuals isn't an
easy nut to crack.
As per SEIP, it could turn into a full-fledged business unit. We could work on it along with our jobs in
hand until the time has come to give a good amount of money back to our efforts. We may also use the
money to arrange conferences and programs to support people in rural areas.

This could help us create business by ways mentioned below:

• CPC / PPC Advertising: cost per click (also called pay per visit) advertising

•   CPM Ads: CPM Ads, or "payment per 1,000 views," are advertisements that give you a certain sum of
money depending on how many people watch your ad.

• Have referral ties in our material

• Use them as a web promotion resource for our industry

• Use them to create reputation

Question 2
Where are we going to be in six months, a year, 10 years from now? I lie awake at night and wonder
what the future holds for my loved ones. My vulnerable friends and family. I wonder what's going to
happen to my career, even though I’m one of the lucky ones.

I hope that we will grasp our condition – and what could lie in our future – by gazing at certain crises.

I look at how global conditions lead to problems such as climate change and poor rates of mental and
physical wellbeing among employees. I also stated that we need a very different type of economy if we
want to create socially fair and environmentally sustainable futures. This has never been more evident
in the context of Covid-19.

The reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic is essentially an extension of the phenomenon that causes many
social and ecological crises: the prioritization of one form of interest above the other. This phenomenon
has played a major role in shaping global responses to Covid-19. So, when the solution to the virus
progresses, how will our economic future develop?

Coronavirus, like climate change, is part of the question of our economic system. While all tend to be
"environmental" or "normal" problems, they are socially motivated.

Indeed, global change is caused by certain heat-absorbing gases. Yet that is a very superficial
description. For order to fully grasp climate change, we need to consider the societal factors that
prevent humanity producing greenhouse gases.
Likewise with Covid-19. Yes, the direct cause is the virus. But managing its effects requires us to
understand human behaviour and its wider economic context.

The COVID-19 pandemic has far-reaching effects beyond the transmission of the epidemic itself and
attempts to contain it. Since the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread across the world, fears have moved from
supply-side production to decreased industry in the services market. The pandemic has sparked the
largest economic crisis in history, losing more than a tenth of the world's population at the time being
placed on lockdown.

Supply shortages are likely to impact a variety of industries owing to emergency sales, intensified use of
supplies to counter the pandemic, and destruction of factories and infrastructure in mainland China, as
well as price increases. There have been recent accounts of prescription stock shortages. With several
countries facing panic-saving and consequent shortages of milk and other critical food products, the it
sector, in particular, has cautioned of delays in shipments of electronic goods.

Global capital markets declined on 24 February 2020 owing to a substantial rise in the amount of COVID-
19 cases outside mainland China. By 28 February 2020, equity markets worldwide had experienced their
highest single-week fall since the financial crash of 2008. International financial markets collapsed in
March 2020, with the world's biggest indexes crashing by many per cent. When the pandemic
progresses, major conventions and activities spanning technology, design, and sports are cancelled or
deferred. Although the quantitative effect on travel and commerce has yet to be determined, it is
expected to rise by billions. By 16 March, news stories circulated that the impact on the United States
economy will be greater than commonly believed.

On 18 March 2020, the World Health Organisation released a paper on mental well being and
psychosocial problems, discussing advice and certain societal concerns after the epidemic of COVID-19.
Owing to concerns as to how pets or other animals might pass on coronavirus to humans, many people
were hesitant to keep their pets fearful of infection, for example in the Arab world, celebrities were
encouraging people to hold and safeguard their pets. Meanwhile, citizens in the U.K. Under the
coronavirus lockout, more dogs appeared to be born.

Many countries have registered an rise in domestic abuse and intimate relationship violence related to
locks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial instability, tension, and confusion have
contributed to intensified assaults at home, with perpetrators able to monitor vast numbers of their
victims' everyday lives. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for domestic violence.

The coronavirus pandemic was accompanied by a concern for a possible rise in suicide, compounded by
social alienation due to quarantine and social-distant instruction, anxiety, and unemployment and
financial causes.

The socio economic impact in India, analysts consider the near-term effects of the epidemic to be
restricted to the supply chains of major conglomerates, in particular pharmaceuticals, fertilizers,
vehicles, textiles and electronics. Significant impacts on global trade logistics are still anticipated due to
logistic problems in mainland China, but also to the added possibility of national geopolitical conflicts,
broader trade wars, and so on.

With coronavirus vaccine still in process, the virus will be with us for a long period of time and all are
daily tasks have changed drastically, we as a society has to build something sustainable for future
generations because if something has happens again of this sort, we will be ready to face with 100%
without affecting our lives.